Security Policy

The phrase security policy, or policy, is used throughout this book to refer
to an organization's security guidelines. Your site's security policy is the set of
rules that define the sensitivity of the information that is being processed and
the measures that are used to protect the information from unauthorized access. Security
technologies such as Secure Shell, authentication, RBAC, authorization, privileges, and resource control provide measures
to protect information.

Some security technologies also use the word policy when describing specific aspects of
their implementation. For example, Oracle Solaris uses audit policy options to configure
some aspects of audit policy. The following table points to glossary, man page,
and information about features that use the word policy to describe specific aspects
of their implementation.